Background: I will be switching from my Tier 2 (Gen) (left my job at the end of December but have not received a curtailment letter yet) visa to spouse and my sponsor "to-be" wife is a British citizen by birth who meets the 6 month salaried financial requirement. I will use my flat (I own it) as housing and have UK taught university degrees for English so documents should be OK.
Questions:
A) Payment details page - do I leave the whole thing blank as pre-paid full premium appointment fee?
B) 2.2 Is this the first time you have applied for a visa or extension of stay in one of the above categories (including previous leave granted as a fiancé(e) or proposed civil partner) with your current sponsor?
I say Yes?
C) 2.3 Please indicate what stage of extension of leave you are applying for or why you are choosing to extend your current leave in one of the above categories.
I choose "You are making a first application from within the UK but have not previously had leave to enter/remain as a partner."?
D) 3.9 How long has your sponsor lived in the UK?
Can I write "Since birth"? Do I need to provide her parents' passport copies as note 10 on page 62 says so?
E) 3.10 Your sponsor’s UK address
My wife would have "officially" only moved into my flat the day after our wedding for cultural reasons, and we would apply just 10 days after the wedding so do I put my address here?
F) 3.11 How long has your sponsor lived at this address?
Can I just say 10 days? Is that an issue and does she need proof?
G) 5.5 Have you ever been refused a visa for any country, including the UK?
In 2005 (i.e. before I first entered UK in 2006) my father mistakenly included me as his dependent along with my mother as part of HIS UK work visa application. This was purely due to misinformation (i.e. 18 year age limit on dependent children) and no deception was intended.
So do I declare this and say yes or is it irrelevant now since so many visas granted since then?
H) 6.4 When did your relationship begin?
Is this a formal relationship such as spouse or when we officially started dating post first meeting?
I) 6.7 When did you start living together in a relationship?
This clashes with 3.11 and 6.4 above. In my case do I only put in that same date and also say "officially" on that date but we lived just 20 mins apart so spent 3-4 days per week together anyway?
J) 6.8 Add all addresses you and your sponsor have lived at in the 2 years preceding this application if you have lived at your current address with your sponsor for less than 2 years.
This is very confusing and related to 3.11 and 6.7. Do we put all our individual addresses here (i.e. my/our current one and her 2 previous ones) or only my/our current one as we never lived together before marriage?
K) 6.9 If relevant, have you lived together permanently in the UK with your sponsor since your last grant of limited leave to remain as a partner?
Can I just leave this blank as N/A?
L) 6.21 Have you lived with your sponsor since your marriage or civil partnership?
Again, yes as we will be for the 10 days after the wedding?
M) 6.33 Do you and your sponsor have any shared financial responsibilities?
We have a joint bank account and I have added her name to the council tax bill (not sure when updated one will arrive in post). She is also named on my car insurance policy. Do I say yes and just state these three? Do I need to provide proofs e.g. bank statements? Are these sufficient in our case or not needed at all?
N) 7.3A Income from salaried employment
Having quit my job in Dec but still on Tier 2, can I leave the "You" bits blank or need to say I'm not currently employed? Is this a catch or issue for me and explanation needed?
O) Do I need to check the the boxes on page 62? We don't have 6 items of correspondence from when we started living together!
P) Which declaration do we sign? Pages 64, 65, 66 (as she is financially supporting me?), 68 and 69?
Many thanks in advance!
